Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much money has been spent on the Public Sector
Research Exploitation Fund in each year since its inception; and how many organisations have received assistance through this fund.
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Ms Hewitt: An award totalling over £10 million was made through the Public Sector Research Exploitation (PSRE) fund in
October 2001. A second round of the PSRE fund worth almost £15 million was announced in the Science Budget for 2003-06. Money
spent so far in Round 1 is as follows:
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Financial year £
2001-02 287,500
2002-03 7,521,860
2003-04 300,000
Total 8,109,360
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A further £2,000,000 of funding has been approved but not yet drawn down.
19 applications received funding through PSRE round 1 and 16 in PSRE round 2. The organisations that have received assistance
through the fund in rounds 1 and 2 are listed as follows, with their funding allocation. In collaborative applications to the fund,
institutions nominate a lead establishment, shown as follows.
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Lead Institution Partner Institutions Award (£)
Public Sector Research Establishment Round 1
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory 4,000,000
Research
Councils (CCLRC) Natural Environment Research Council
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research
Council
UK Atomic Energy Authority
CCLRC 475,000
Central Manchester and Manchester Children's 510,000
University Hospitals NHS Trust
Central Science Laboratory Centre for Environment, Fisheries and 231,860
Aquaculture
Veterinary Laboratories Agency
Institute of Food Research Plant Bioscience Ltd. 160,000
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Barnsley District General Hospital NHS 220,000
Trust
Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust
York Health Services NHS Trust
National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside Lynton Lasers Ltd. 287,500
Product Innovation and Development Centre
Natural Environment Research Council 600,000
Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Hospitals Trust BioSci North Ltd. 270,000
MKW Engineering Ltd.
Newcastle General Hospital
NHS Executive, Northern and Yorkshire
Region
RTC North Ltd.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research CERN 200,000
Plant Bioscience Ltd. 530,000
Public Health Laboratory Service National Institute of Biological Standards 300,000
and Controls
South Glasgow University Hospitals Trust BioIndustry Association (Scotland) 425,000
Connect
Grampian University Hospital NHS Trust
Greater Glasgow Primary Care NHS Trust
LINC Scotland
Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust
Scottish Enterprise
Scottish Executive, Chief Scientists
Scottish National Blood Transfusion
Tayside University Hospital NHS Trust
University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS 300,000
Trust
Birmingham Specialist Community Health NHS
Trust
Burton Hospital NHS Trust
City Hospital NHS Trust
Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust
Mid Staffordshire General Hospital NHS
Trust
North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust
Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic
South Birmingham Mental Health NHS Trust
South Warwickshire General Hospital NHS
Trust
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS
Trust
University Hospital NHS Trust Nottingham City Hospital Trust 300,000
South Derbyshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Four London NHS Trusts comprising:
Barts and the London NHS Trust City and Hackney Primary Care Trust
East London and City Mental Health Trust
Homerton Hospital NHS Trust
Newham Healthcare Trust
Newham Primary Care Trust
Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust
Guy's and St. Thomas's NHS Trust Epson and St. Helier NHS Trust
King's College Hospital Trust
Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust
South West London and St George's Mental
Health Trust
St. George's Hospital NHS Trust
The Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS
Trust
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust
North West London Hospitals Trust
St. Mary's NHS Trust
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust Camden and Islington Community Health 1,300,000
Services NHS Trust
Camden and Islington Mental Health NHS
Trust
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
NHS Trust
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust
North Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS
Trust
The University College London Hospitals
NHS Trust
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Total 110,109,360
Public Sector Research Establishment Round 2
Barts and the London NHS Trust The Royal Free Hampstead 2,300,000
The Royal Brompton and Harefield
Guy's and St. Thomas'
The London Development Agency
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Council for the Central Laboratory of the 2,000,000
Research Council (BBSRC) Research Councils (CCLRC)
Natural Environment Research Council
(NERC)
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
(DSTL)
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research
Council (PPARC)
UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)
Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University TrusTECH 750,000
Hospitals NHS Trust Health Protection Agency
BIONOW
Medical Devices Faraday
CLIK Knowledge Transfer 750,000
Defence Science and Tech Lab (DSTL) Central Science Laboratory 1,000,000
Health Protection Agency
Veterinary Laboratories Agency
Forensic Science Service, The 500,000
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 250,000
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS
Trust
York Hospitals NHS Trust
Barnsley District General Hospital NHS
Trust
Yorkshire Forward
Medilink (Yorkshire and Humber)
Moredun Research Institute Roslin Institute 1,500,000
Rowett Research Institute
Scottish Agricultural College
Institute for Animal Health
Natural Environment Research Council 600,000
National Museums Liverpool Lynton Lasers 750,000
The Hothouse
Castle Fine Arts Foundry
Shape Design
Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Hospitals Trust RTC North Ltd. 490,000
University of Newcastle upon Tyne Regional
Medical Physics Dept
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Trust
Centre of Excellence for Life Sciences
North Tyneside Primary Care Trust
County Durham and Darlington Acute
Hospitals NHS Trust
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust
University of Durham
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, The South East England Development Agency 540,000
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Papworth Hospital NHS Trust The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust 500,000
Addenbrookes NHS Trust
East of England Development Agency
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research 175,000
Council (PPARC)
Plant Biosciences Ltd BBSRC 1,800,000
Roslin Institute (Genecom) Institute of Animal Health 800,000
Moredun Research Institute
Total 14,705,000
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1 The Advisory Board recommended that the additional £109,360 (over and above the £10 million allocated for the PSRE Fund) be
taken from the surplus from University Challenge.